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The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the United States Virgin Islands on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The first Catholic church building in the Danish West Indies, present day U.S. Virgin Islands, was purchased from the Danish Crown in 1802. It was destroyed in a fire two years later. The first church under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul was consecrated in 1806. The first church building on the present location was completed in 1828.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Virgin Islands National Park is a national park of the United States preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as more than 5,500 acres (2,226 ha; 9 sq mi) of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor.
The United States would not take possession of the islands until March 31, 1917, at which time Denmark sold the islands for the sum of $25,000,000 in United States gold coin. [ 2 ] The Moravian Church saw its 1755 acquisition of the estate as a way to supplement its mission at the New Herrnhut Moravian Church in what is now eastern Saint Thomas ...
The L'Esperance Historic District, located east of Cruz Bay off Center Line Rd., on Saint John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It is located within Virgin Islands National Park.
The Charlotte Amalie Historic District in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands is a 165.3 acres (0.669 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] The district then included 574 contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and a contributing object. [1]
As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the historic site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. As of 2016 [update] , the National Park Service planned to celebrate its centennial with an initiative to rehabilitate the main warehouse facility into a slave trade museum, and to ...